Rita Duffy: "I knew art can be threatening to those in power"
A detail from Epiphany, by Rita Duffy, part of her exhibition at Crawford Art Gallery.
Rita Duffy’s passion for politics has always been at the heart of her artistic practice, and is very much to the fore in Persistent Illusion, her first solo exhibition at the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork. It is perhaps a sign of the times that her new paintings and drawings are more concerned with global politics than with the local conflict that fuelled her early work as an artist growing up in Belfast in the Troubles.
As Duffy sees, the whole world is in peril. “The one issue we all need to address is climate change,” she says.
